Kicking off a Higher Plain Music artist discovery extravaganza, I’d like to introduce you to Pure Carrière. The moniker of Jean-Michel Letendre Veilleux, Pure Carrière, is a Quebec-based artist who pulls together music designed to be imperfect. The idea is to keep their brand of indie rock loose, free, and easy. Tones, chords, and patterns will shift around, and the music will happily embrace dissonance or a slide into something unexpected. Although French-Canadian, this kind of off-kilter music is very French, and they do it better than anyone else.
Pure Carrière’s latest single is called ‘Farfouiller’, and Veilleux says it’s an ode to quiet boredom and chaos. “It feels both suffocating and strangely freeing” and that comes through in the music itself. The light rhythms skip playfully around the guitars, whilst Jean-Michel’s vocals at times echo out like they are drowning in a sea of yawns.
‘Farfouiller’ is taken from Pure Carrière’s forthcoming album ‘Visions De L’enfer’. The album is out on 19th September, and you can find out more on Pure Carrière’s website. I’m expecting more art rock, indie jams, and plenty of ramshackle second-hand sounds. Everything sounds like it’s selotaped together in a gleeful DIY abandon, and I hope the forthcoming album embraces that style too.
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